Truth be told, I ate his head

Can you read in your dreams?

You are trapped, bound in a narrative constructed entirely from the electrical activity occurring in your brain. A book, a computer screen, a letter—whatever—appears.

Have you experienced fully the words your brain composes in its attempt to repair itself each night?

Can—you—read—them?

I can’t. I see scribble. My brain untangles chains knotted each day and won’t let me examine the kinks.

Once—just once—it let me look.

At that link.

Right there, the title. I have no idea of what I was dreaming. The obvious answer is “praying mantii,” but why would I have dreamt of praying mantii as a teenager? I hated the experience of science class because it took me ages longer than my classmates to grasp the material.

What on earth was I writing about?

I’ll be contemplating this for a while. Maybe another dream will reveal more.

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